Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an elemental manner; with reference to or as regards elements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb According to elements; literally.
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- adverb in an
elemental manner - adverb
literally
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Examples
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Then, with a flair for timing that can only be described as elementally perverse, nature unleashed another blow.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Then, with a flair for timing that can only be described as elementally perverse, nature unleashed another blow.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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I feel very human and elementally exposed in a way that helps me further my appreciation of life and the family I always return to after my short excursions.
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Michel Nischan Maria Rodale 2010
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If you are concerned with humankind, you must rightly perceive the object of your concern elementally.
Nancy Chuda: To Invent Fire Nancy Chuda 2011
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If you are concerned with humankind, you must rightly perceive the object of your concern elementally.
Nancy Chuda: To Invent Fire Nancy Chuda 2011
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He could be as elementally raw at times as a screaming savage; and at other times as delicate as a maid, as subtle as a Spaniard.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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Jees Uck, whose mind was simple, who thought elementally and was unused to weighing life in its subtler quantities, read Amos
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And, more elementally, don't they know there's a recession on?
Terrance Heath: The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt. 2 2010
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At the festival's lively new downtown location, featuring the elementally dubbed TIFF Lightbox film center, Mr. Turturro has joined New Yorkers Woody Allen, Julian Schnabel, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Cameron Mitchell and others to offer films big, small and unclassifiable.
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I feel very human and elementally exposed in a way that helps me further my appreciation of life and the family I always return to after my short excursions.
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Michel Nischan Maria Rodale 2010
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